Important Shokugeki no Souma Announcement to Be Made on December 14

The most recent issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has teased that an important announcement about Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) manga will be made in next week’s issue, releasing on December 14th.

The upcoming issue of the magazine will also mark the 3rd anniversary of Shokugeki no Souma. The next chapter of the series will include special coloured pages to celebrate the anniversary.

The Blu-ray and DVD volumes of the anime adaptation of the series are still currently being released. The next volume will be Vol. 6, containing episodes 16, 17 and 18 of Shokugeki no Souma. The volume will be out in Japan on December 23.

Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) is a comedy, ecchi cooking manga written by Yuuto Tsukuda, illustrated by Shun Saeki with Chef Yuki Mirosaki adding recipes to the manga. The series began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in late 2012 and to date has a total of 10 compiled volumes released, with the 11th volume releasing in Japan on March 4th. A light novel adaptation of the manga began in February this year in Shueisha’s Jump j-Books, written by Michiko Itou and illustrated by Saeki himself. The manga itself has sold over 2 million copies to date.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

Yukihira Souma’s dream is to become a full-time chef in his father’s restaurant and surpass his father’s culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma’s fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?

An important announced about Shokugeki no Souma will be made in the next issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, out on December 14. The next Blu-ray release of the anime, volume 6, is out on December 23.